"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

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Lightning McQueen: Speed. I am speed. One winner. Forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Brekkie could be good for me. No, no, no, stay focused. Speed.

Elsa's line from "Let It Go"'s second verse, given the nature and extent of her powers.

Elsa: I am the one with the wind and sky.

In the original, animated Transformers: The Movie, after Unicron transforms from a predatory planet into a planet-sized robot: "For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet (sic), Cybertron; but now, you will witness - its dismemberment!" For extra points, delivered by Orson Welles.

Even more badass because the audience sees Wednesday actually roasting two guys who tried to subdue her in preparation to feast on them.

There's also his speech in Addams Family Values when Gomez tries to go to the police to get Fester back.

Gomez Addams: Has the planet gone mad? My brother, passion's hostage. I seek justice! Denied. I shall not submit! I shall conquer! I shall rise! My name is Gomez Addams, and I have seen evil! [Cut to Grandma and the baby] I have seen horror! [[Cut to Lurch]] I have seen the unholy maggots which feast in the dark recesses of the human soulnote "They're at camp"! I have seen all this, officer. But until today, I had never seen you!

The Kid: Say, Bill. That business in Jackson County... did that really happen? I mean how they say it happened?

Munny: What business?

The Kid: An' how there was two deputies up close pointin' rifles at you... had you dead to rights... an' how you pulled out a pistol an' blew them both away to hell... an' only took a scratch yourself. (pause) Uncle Pete told me he never seen nothin' like it, shootin' your way out of a scrape like that.

Munny (uncomfortable): Well... I don't recollect.

later...

Ned: What he was talkin' about... how them deputies had the drop on you an' Pete...

Munny: Yeah?

Ned: I remember how there was three of them deputies you shot... not two.

MUNNY (dismissing it): Well, I ain't like that no more, Ned. I ain't no crazy, killin' fool.

Little Bill: You be William Munny outta Missouri. Killer of women and children!

Will Munny: That's right. I killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned.

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

The third Austin Powers movie had this, when Michael Caine intimidated a mook this way.

"Oh, what is this, your first day on the job? Do you know who I am? Do you know how many anonymous henchmen I've killed? I mean, look at you, you don't even have a nametag. You've got no chance. Why don't you just fall down?"

And he does!

The Last Dragon has badass villain Sho'Nuff do a call-and-response boast with his crew, which goes something like this...

Sho'nuff: Am I the meanest?

Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!

Sho'nuff: Am I the prettiest?

Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!

Sho'nuff: Am I the baddest mofo low down around this town?

Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!

Sho'nuff: Well who am I?

Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!

Sho'nuff: Who am I?

Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!

Sho'nuff: I can't hear you...

Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!

In the initial training duel of When the Last Sword is Drawn, the narrator's opponent is given an armored headband in case the narrator misses and actually hits him. The opponent tells the narrator he should wear one too, but the narrator responds, "I won't need it."

In Secondhand Lions, Hub (played by Robert Duvall, no less!) has a speech of this type:

"I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, killed many men, and loved only one woman with a passion a flea like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!"

Also in the story of Hub and Garth's adventures in Africa:

Narrator Garth: But Hub just said "Twice I have held your life in my hands. And twice I have given it back to you. The next time..."

The trailer for the film Taken is built around the main character's calm threat, very effectively delivered by Liam Neeson.

"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that will be the end of it. But if you don't, I will look for you. I will find you. And I will kill you."

Liam Neeson's been getting a lot of these. In the film version of The A-Team, Hannibal and crew, after having broken out of various detention facilities, walk onto the rear of a C-130 and asks, "Do you know who I am?" "You're Hannibal Smith." "Do you know what that means?" "You're, uh, taking the plane?" "Bingo." Cue aircrew leaving the plane without offering any resistance.

Creedy: What'cha gonna do, uh? We've swept this place, you've got nothing. Nothing but your bloody knives and your fancy karate gimmicks, we have guns! V: No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I'll no longer be standing, because if I am... you'll all be dead before you've reloaded.

And the lines just before that:

Creedy: Defiant to the end, eh? You won't cry like him, will you? You're not afraid of death. You're like me.

V: The only thing that you and I have in common, Mr. Creedy, is we're both about to die.

A badass boast was pretty much a prerequisite to be a cowboy in Tombstone.

Wyatt Earp: All right, Clanton... You called down the thunder. Well, now you've got it! You see that? It says "United States Marshal."... Take a good look at him, Ike, because that's how you're gonna end up!... The Cowboys are finished, you understand me?! I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the LAW'S coming! You tell 'em I'M coming... and Hell's coming with me, you hear?! Hell's coming with me!

Hayes: Good, 'cause I am one. And a damn good one. Oh, I never flew the skull and crossbones, that's for your fictioneers. But I have sought pleasure and profit in every port known to man, without regard to any man's law. That's not to say without morals and standards. I've got morals and standards. I've never killed anyone who didn't have it coming, I've never cheated an honest man, I've never pillaged and I've never raped.

Mal: Y'all got on this boat for different reasons, but y'all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything, I know this — they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, ten? They'll swing back to the belief that they can make people... better. And I do not hold to that. So no more runnin'. I aim to misbehave.

You wanna get Capone? Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone!

Aguirre, the Wrath of God: "I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks of deserting this mission will be hacked into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be trampled until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes one grain of corn or one drop of water more than his ration will be locked up for 155 years. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of god. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river will win untold riches."

Vincent Cacardi in True Romance: "I am the Anti-Christ. You get me in a vendetta-kind-of mood, you tell the angels in heaven you never saw evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you."

Last of the Mohicans: "When the Grey Hair is dead, Magua will eat his heart. Before he dies, Magua will put his children under the knife, so the Grey Hair will know his seed is wiped out forever."

Aliens: Hudson attempts one using the word "badass" itself as much as possible. It is centered around the More Dakka available from the APC and the Drop Ship, which is why the loss of both due to an Alien ambush (which proves the Xenomorphs are not only inhuman and deadly, but SNEAKY!) leads straight to his Heroic BSOD.

Sarah in Labyrinth: "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city, for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great....You have no power over me." Slightly subverted in that they're actually lines from a play she'd been rehearsing, but when she has her epiphany, she makes them her own and they gain true power.

Atreyu in The Neverending Story: "I will not die easily. I am a warrior." Then when he lets G'mork know who he's dealing with: "If we're about to die anyway, I'd rather die fighting! Come for me, G'mork! IamAtreyu!"

Billy Flynn: "I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently."

I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why.

Nada's famous line from They Live!: "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."

"I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because I am a river to my people!"

This is sort of done by proxy when the accountant is trying to blackmail Wayne and Fox, and Fox says:

Let me get this straight: You think that your client, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the world, is secretly a vigilante who spends his nights beating criminals to a pulp with his bare hands. And your plan is to blackmail this person? Good luck.

When Gordon comes home to his family after faking being dead, his son asks, "Did Batman save you, daddy?"

Woody Allen: They wanted in Hollywood to make the definitive spy picture. And they came to me to supervise the project, you know, because I think that, if you know me at all, you know that death is my bread and danger my butter - oh, no, danger's my bread, and death is my butter. No, no, wait. Danger's my bread, death - no, death is - no, I'm sorry. Death is my - death and danger are my various breads and various butters.

Tony Stark: Let's do a headcount here: your brother, the demigod; a living legend, who kinda lives up to the legend; a man with breathtaking anger-management issues; a couple of master assassins; and you, big fella, have managed to piss off each and every one of them.

Loki: That was my plan.

Tony Stark: Yeah, not a great plan.

He tops it off with yet another:

Tony Stark: No, you're missing the point - there is no throne. There is no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes, and maybe it's too much for us, but it's all on you. Cause if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it.

Frederick Frankenstein: From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, "I am Man", our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our own mortality. But tonight we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of Death itself. Tonight we shall ascend into the heavens. We shall mock the earthquake. We shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious Nature herself!

William d'Aubigny: You betray all that's meant to be king. You betray God!

King John: I betray God!? My crown was passed to me by my brother, and my father before him. I was born to be a king! It is my birthright, given to me by God! You cry for the common man, and in the same breath, you curse the crown that protects him. You dare to question my reign? And the lineage of kings who have reigned before me? The great Amyrinthine royalty of Aquity! Who forged this land from barbarian hordes, who made it noble and pure, who gave it order, meaning and even faith! To thousands of years of loyal subjects, and it is all now questioned by you! And we are forced to sign your precious Magna Carta! Forced by you - A WOOL MERCHANT!I AM THE BLOOD! I AM GOD'S RIGHT HAND!And you will NEVER DICTATE TO ME HOW I AM TO BE A KING!

Jack Carter: You're a big man but in bad shape. With me it's a full-time job. Now behave yourself.

Harry Lockhart in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, when he finds a creepy guy about to feel up a sleeping woman at a party

Harry: You know what? You'd better be her doctor.

Creepy Guylooks up but says nothing

Harry: Walk away, don't think, just do it.

Creepy Guy: What are you, her brother or something? It's none of your business, man. I will fuck you up

Harry, coolly: No. You'll try, and that little experiment will end in tears, my friend. So, again for the cheap seats, do not think, walk the fuck away - or let's you and me go outside right now. It's past my bedtime. Make a choice.

Skeletor: People of Eternia! I stand before the Great Eye of the galaxy. Chosen by destiny by the powers of Grayskull! This inevitable moment will transpire before your eyes, even as He-Man himself bears witness to it. Now. I, Skeletor, am Master of the Universe! YES! Yes... I feel it, the power... fills me. Yes, I feel the universe within me! I am... I am a part of the cosmos! The power flows... Flows through me! Of what consequence are you now? This planet, these people. They are NOTHING to me! The universe is power! Real, unstoppable POWER! and I am that force! I am that power! KNEEL BEFORE YOUR MASTER! Fool! you are no longer my EQUAL! I am more than man! MORE THAN LIFE! I... am... a... GOD! Now. You... will... KNEEEEEL! KNEEEEL!

During Hammer's description of the Ex-Wife, which is mostly just him giving it flattering compliments that have little to nothing to do with its capabilities, he only gives one notable piece of technical information about it. He describes the missile as containing a 'cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine RDX burst'. He used two different terms for the same explosive (RDX) back-to-back. When War Machine uses it on Whiplash, it simply bounces off his armor and sputters on the ground.

Tony: Hammer tech? Rhodey: Yeah...

Ivan gives one of his own to Tony over the phone:

Ivan: What your father did to my family over 40 years I'll do to you in 40 minutes!

Let us not forget his bombastic speech at the opening of the Stark Expo.

Tony: I'm not saying that the world is enjoying its longest period of uninterrupted peace in years because of me. I'm not saying that from the ASHES!OF CAPTIVITY!... never has a greater Phoenix metaphor been personified in human history. I'm not saying that Uncle Sam can kick back on a lawn chair, sippin' on an iced tea, because I haven't come across anyone who's man enough to go toe-to-toe with me on my best day!

Lord Vile, I've broken Juggers in half, smashed their bones, left the ground behind me wet with brains. There's nothing I wouldn't do to win. But I never hurt anyone for any reason other than sticking a dog's skull on a stake. And I never will.

In The Color of Money, Vincent goes back to play pool against Moselle, carrying his Balabushka pool cue in a case. When Moselle asks what's inside, Vincent grins and opens it, revealing the Balkabushka, and simply says "Doom" with a huge grin. He then proceeds to wipe the floor with Moselle.

"Somewhere on this island is the greatest predator there ever lived. The second greatest predator must take him down."

In Jurassic World, Owen Grady has an off-hand one that works very effectively. Owen introduces his somewhat-tamed but still very dangerous Velociraptors, Echo, Charlie, Delta and Blue, to Zach and Gray. Gray, noting the theme naming, confusedly asks Owen where "Alpha" is.

G. I. Jane: After one of the new recruits idiotically decides to laugh during Command Master Chief Urgayle's opening speech, the latter walks up to the recruit and responds with a boast where he basically compares himself to God.

Urgayle: The ebb and flow of the Atlantic tides, the drift of the continents, the very position of the sun along its ecliptic. THESE are just a FEW of the things I control in my world! Is that clear?

Future president Andrew Jackson gets one in the Yul Brynner film The Buccaneer.

Jackson: If you put a bullet in my brain, I'll still live long enough to kill you.

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